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Showing posts with label Repairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Repairs. Show all posts
Friday, March 11, 2022

Reinforcing the bridge patch

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Remember the nasty, chewed-up bridge patch? That was more like a wide brace of soft spruce? I sure did, and wanted to glue a thin piece of m...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Getting ready for surgery

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Having stumbled onto some plywood I set out to make a neck removal jig for the ancient guitar. As with all jig ideas of mine - at least the ...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Old guitar in for repair

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My friend bought this ancient guitar at an auction, and I’ll have a look at it to try to fix some more or less obvious issues. It’s at least...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Slow but unsteady

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We’re having the worst heatwave I can remember. I have to stay in the shade and take it as easy as possible. But I made the bridge (twice) a...
Thursday, May 31, 2018

The Baron’s soprano in for service

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My friend Robin is off to the UWC in the States, so he wanted me to polish up his soprano that I built so many years ago.  I checked the fre...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Getting closer to getting a result

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The neck's back on, back plate and binding is in place. Time to partially re-finish the poor uke. For some reason the shellac goes on be...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Body bound and neck attached

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I bound the front edge, then took a deep breath and attached the neck. It went on straight. Then I glued the back back on and routed a rebat...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Aligning and binding

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To properly check the neck before re-attaching it, I made a jig of perspex and carbon fibre rods. The slots make a centre line and the rods ...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Back [in black]

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Did I ever say this blog is a warts-and-all narrative of my building escapades? I did didn't I. So be prepared for a few all-warts posts...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

More waiting, and distractions

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I bit the bullet and bought a new random orbital sander. The idea of sanding the finish on these seven ukes was too much to bear so I order...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Tenor guitar restoration

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This post has taken me several years to write.  A couple of, or three maybe, years ago my wonderful friend Brian read a comment I made about...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Saturday night action

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After the kids had gone to bed I whipped out the shellac and muneca, the bending iron, and Robert's baritone. So look at the pics, in th...